Facebook is a site rich with public discourse among its 410 million users and it is
changing the way we fundamentally communicate. Among its varied users, Facebook is
continually evolving into multiple genres, meeting ...

Prenatal alcohol exposure is the leading non-genetic, biological cause of birth defects and other anomalies. Perhaps as many as 1 in 100 children born in the United States each year have been exposed to alcohol during ...

The realm of Earth science (ES) is increasingly data-intensive. Geoinformatics research
attempts to robustly smooth and accelerate the flow of data to information, information to
knowledge, and knowledge to decisions and ...

At the beginning of the last decade, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act of 2002. Key provisions of this act focused on holding schools accountable to ensure that all ...

This study examined the relationships among visuospatial ability, motivation to learn science, and learner conceptions of force across commonly measured demographics with university undergraduates with the aim of examining ...

A purpose of this study was to explore the inter-relations among eighth grade mathematics student achievements in the content domains of Number, Algebra, Geometry, and Data & Chance and the cognitive domains of Knowing, ...

On Wednesday, May 2, 2012, the University Libraries and the Office of the Provost held a faculty forum to discuss the possibility of creating a fund to help Mason faculty publish in open access journals. We anticipate that ...

Since the end of the Cold War, the effects of state failure have plagued the international
community. There are many purported solutions to state failure like financial assistance
and multi-national interventions, though ...

In 2007, National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced a contest for a
new American cryptographic hash function standard, called SHA-3. At the time of writing,
after eliminating 37 algorithms in Round 1, ...

This study hypothesizes that low-income, automobile-based commuters within the service areas of the Fairfax Connector bus system can be persuaded to use the Fairfax Connector county bus system, as opposed to a single ...